Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-527-35437-5
Verlag: WILEY-VCH

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm

An up-to-date guide to understanding, designing, and using high entropy materials

In Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive exploration of high entropy materials for functional applications. It’s an interdisciplinary discussion highlighting the role of high entropy materials in various industries and examines the real-world applications of high entropy alloys and compounds. The authors illustrate the potential of these materials to transform different industries and cover both bulk HEA materials and HEA nanoparticles.

Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds offers a structured and in-depth exploration of high entropy materials. It examines critical fundamentals, including their characteristics, structures, phase transformations, and microstructures, as well as corrosion, anti-oxidation, and additive manufacturing and phase control.

Readers will also find: - A thorough introduction to the functional properties of high entropy materials
- Comprehensive explorations of the real-world applications of high entropy materials, including 3D printing, thermoelectrics, optoelectronics, thermal catalysts, electro-catalysts, and energy storage
- Practical discussions of nanoscale high entropy materials and high entropy materials for thermal-catalytic applications
- Complete treatments of clean energy and electrocatalysis and high entropy materials for energy storage

Perfect for materials scientists, metallurgists, electrochemists, and catalytic chemists, Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds will also benefit aerospace engineers and physicians and thermodynamics physicists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Yong

Yao, Yonggang

Liu, Haojie

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Metallische Werkstoffe
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Metallurgie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Festigkeitslehre, Belastbarkeit
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Elektrochemie, Magnetochemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Foreword
 
CHAPTER 1 HIGH ENTROPY ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS: FUNDAMENTALS
1.1 Introduction (Historical background and development)
1.2 Definition of High Entropy Alloys and Compounds
1.3 Characteristics, Structures, Phase Transformations, and Microstructures
1.4 Diverse Applications of Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds
CHAPTER 2 EXTREME CONDITIONS AND NOVEL STRUCTURE DESIGN
2.1 Introduction to extreme conditions and harsh requirements
2.2 HEMs for extreme temperatures
2.3 HEMs sustain under strong irradiations
2.4 Fiber and single crystal HEMs
 
CHAPTER 3 CORROSION AND ANTI-OXIDATION
3.1 Introduction to corrosion and anti-oxidation scenario
3.2 Anti-corrosion design in high entropy materials
3.3 High-temperature oxidation resistance
 
CHAPTER 4 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND PHASE CONTROL
4.1 Introduction to additive manufacturing technologies
4.2 3D printing of high entropy materials
4.3 Shape design and phase control in HEM by 3D printin
4.4 Applications of 3D printed HEM
 
CHAPTER 5 FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES: THERMAL, ELECTRIC, MAGNETIC AND OPTICS
5.1 Introduction to functional properties and applications
5.2 Thermal and electronic properties in HEMs
5.3 Magnetic and Optical Properties in HEMs
5.4 Materials design for functional applications
 
CHAPTER 6 NANOSCALE HIGH ENTROPY MATERIALS
6.1 Introduction to evolution from bulk to nanoscale HEMs
6.2 Synthesis and advanced characterization
6.3 Diverse applications of nanoscale HEMs
6.4 Emergying Nano HEAs
 
CHAPTER7 HIGH ENTROPY MATERIALS FOR THERMAL-CATALYTIC APPLICATIONS
7.1 Introduction to thermal catalysis and important concepts
7.2 Catalysts evolution to high entropy materials
7.3 Typical reactions and their high entropy catalysts
7.4 Understanding of high entropy catalysts
 
CHAPTER 8 CLEAN ENERGY AND ELECTROCATALYSIS
8.1 Introduction to electro-catalysis and its importance
8.2 Application of HEA in key reactions of electrocatalysis
8.3 Advanced ex/in situ characterization techniques
8.4 High-Throughput and Data-Driven Techniques in High-Entropy Catalyst Development
 
CHAPTER 9 HIGH ENTROPY MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS
9.1 Introduction to high-entropy materials for battery applications
9.2 High-entropy anode materials
9.3 High-entropy cathode materials
9.4 High-entropy solid-state electrolytes
9.5 High-entropy liquid electrolytes
9.6 Perspectives on high-entropy battery materials
 
CHAPTER 10 FUTURE TRENDS AND CONCLUDING REGARDS
10.1 Key challenges presented in functional high entropy alloy and compounds
10.2 Future development of functional high entropy alloy and compounds
10.3 Concluding regards: Materials evolution from simple to a complex yet fruitful future

Über Autor(innen)

Yong Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing University of Science and Technology in the State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials. He has been engaged in long-term research on high-entropy alloy flexible materials, body-centered cubic structure high-entropy alloys, nanostructured high-entropy alloys, and related areas. He has previously been honored with Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education (first class), National Natural Science Award (second class), and the second prize of the Science and Technology Award in Shanxi Province.
 
Yonggang Yao is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His long-term research focuses on transient high-temperature synthesis and manufacturing technologies, with a particular emphasis on the design and development of novel energy materials and low-carbon rapid manufacturing. He has been recognized as one of the "Top 2% Scientists Worldwide" by Stanford University and a "Highly Cited Scientist" by Clarivate Analytics. Additionally, he received the title of "Innovator under 35" in the China region by MIT Technology Review in 2022.